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Nusch Eluard, Valentine Hugo, c. 1934.
Photo: Timothy Baum (Low Quality Scan)

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Surrealist Object, 1931.
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Leather, wood. Present location unknown. Photograph reproduced in Le Surrealisme au Service de la Revolution, no. 3, December 1931.

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Dream of 21 December 1929, 1929.
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Oil on canvas. Present location unknown. Photograph reproduced in International Kunstudstilling, Kubisme-Surrealisme, Copenhagen, 1935.

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Valentine Hugo, 1931.
Photo: Man Ray (Low Quality Scan)

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Collage of members of the Surrealist group, 1934.
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Valentine Hugo shifted her allegiance to the Surrealist group around 1929. Briefly linked romantically with Eluard and Breton, she continued to illustrate Eluard's work until his death. Married to Jean Hugo until 1929, she was the first woman to enter the Surrealist orbit with a professional reputation as an artist already established. She was a major visual interpreter of Surrealist texts. Hugo dedicated her collage of members of the Surrealist group to Jacqueline Lamba Breton and in an interview published later in her life she recalled the support and encouragement provided by her friendships with Eluard, Breton, and other Surrealists.

Thanks to Cyril: It seems that Valentine Hugo took the pictures from this catalogue : Livres et Publications Surréalistes :andrebreton.fr/fr/item/?GCOI=56600100854980.

So the full list is : René Crevel, Salvador Dali, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Benjamin Péret, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Unik, Luis Bunuel, André Breton and René Char.

Present location unknown. Formerly collection of Jean Petithory, Paris.

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Cover of Contes Bizarres, by Achim d'Arnim, 1935.
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Engraving. 7 x 10 1/4.

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Entretians
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Letter transcibed by Valentine Hugo. Date unknown.

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Portrait of Pablo Picasso, 1934
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Valentine Hugo in front of her painting, The Constellations, 1935
Photo: Man Ray (Low Quality Scan)

Collection Jean Petithory, Paris

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Biography

whitney chadwick
Women artists and the surrealist movement
book 1989

(See and read why this is the most important book on surrealism, both male and female, ever written - valentine hugo included extensively - more scans on the book than anywhere in the universe!)

leonora carrington

frida kahlo

leonor fini

lee miller

meret oppenheim

remedios varo

frank auerbach

francis bacon

baselitz

joseph beuys

christo

jean cocteau

salvador dali

hundertwasser

jasper johns

anselm kiefer

jean marais

lichtenstein

mcbean

picasso

egon schiele

andy warhol